Poll: General election voting round 5 (final one)

Voting intentions in the General Election?

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 3 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 403 42.2%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 59 6.2%

  • Labour

    Votes: 176 18.4%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 67 7.0%

  • Not voting/will spoil ballot

    Votes: 42 4.4%

  • Other party (not named)

    Votes: 8 0.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 37 3.9%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 154 16.1%
  • Total voters
    956
  • Poll closed .
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StriderX said:
I wish that Mainly macro guy got more attention... far more apt a person to listen to.
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Sad to say that people are much more likely to believe what some rent-a-gob writes in Rupert Murdoch's right-wing rags than an economics professor at Oxford University, or any other industry recognised expert.
 
PermaBanned said:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...party-on-a-deal-with-the-tories-10221544.html

Nice to see Clegg acknowledging his party's preference against a second tory coalition. Pretty much scuppers any hope for Cameron remaining PM, there would have to be some major concessions for Clegg to swing it by his party that Cameron would be hard pressed to swing by his.
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Will do anything to not have to move his stuff out of No 10. Fair play to him though.

Can't see we are going to have any sort of stability if the country is being led by a minority government.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
But its the most engaging way to literally stand in front of people. So you want to force them to retreat back to sanitised stuff such as Tv studios and twitter and not engage the public.
Yet at the same time you accuse them of being remote.

So which way is it, engage directly or not and be accused of being corporate
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You are talking rubbish. Politics has moved away from MPs actually meeting people that have not been pre-selected and screened beforehand. This has been going on for years. Remember Major decided to get 'on the soapbox' to connect with people. They are in the TV studio etc and have been for many years. It was the drive to corporatist politics and 'slicker presentation' run by PR that has resulted in the present situation.
It is a bit rich saying they would be forced back into TV studios. If you had opened your eyes at any time during the last twenty or more years you would have seen that is the norm for todays corporatist politicians.
 
scorza said:
Me too :( another reason to hate Rupert Murdoch's SNP - if they'd actually have delivered independence for Scotland then we'd still have Biohazard here.
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Still punting this canard. Switch on the BBC, press the red button for CEEFAX, got to the News section then the Politics section and read the report on who the papers are supporting. Sun: England - Tories, Sun: Scotland - SNP. He is just supporting the party that has the best chance of defeating Labour.
 
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TUSC for me. Our local candidate was a special needs teacher and led the successful campaign to keep the local special needs school open when faced with closure. I also agree with a number of policies they have.

Obviously they are not going to get anywhere but I'm voting for who I agree with and not tactical voting to help one group of people I loathe keep power, or another group of people I don't like take power.
 
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Increasingly I think Nick Clegg is dooming the Liberal Democrats. TBH, if they have a choice between a coalition with Labour and a coalition with the Tories and they choose the Tories, they'll lose what's left of their grass-roots support, finding themselves reliant on Tory tactical voting. In 2010 they didn't have a choice. While they lost some support, many members understood why they joined the coalition. If there's no such excuse this time, Nick is walking the party over a cliff. The biggest danger to a Tory/Lib Dem coalition? Lib Dem MPs resigning or defecting to Labour/The Green Party, the Lib Dem party membership desolving in to nothing, or the party simply deciding they've had enough, sacking Nick and walking away from the coalition. I'm not at all convinced that they'll be a stable coalition party for the Conservatives.
 
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Postal vote posted - I vote swapped, so I voted Labour (instead of Green) here to keep the tories out and someone else is voting Green (instead of Labour) in a constituency where they stand a better chance.

wordy said:
TUSC for me. Our local candidate was a special needs teacher and led the successful campaign to keep the local special needs school open when faced with closure. I also agree with a number of policies they have.
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I'm keeping an eye on the TUSC - if they get anywhere this election (>5% of all votes) then they could pull me away from the Greens.
 
Sounds like Cowardly Cameron is preparing to steal the election and remain Prime Minister if Labour don't win more seats than the Conservatives.
 
Moses said:
Are the circumstances that different from 2010? I mean, you said the members understood why there wasn't really a choice in terms of coalition... why's it different now? Going with the party which has the most votes and most seats would be completely legitimate, no?

As long as these 'red lines' are kept to, what's the big issue who they go with? They got a number of decent wins last time, no? Can't the members see that being in government can achieve a lot? Especially if there's not going to be a repeat of tuition-fee-pledge-gate.
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They have a legitimate choice of going I to a coalition with labour. I expect Clegg just thinks he will get a better deal from the Tories who will be incredibly desperate to find some way to cling on to power.


The Lib dems lost my vote by entering a coalition with the Tories, will never be angle to trust them again.
 
BadMojo said:
Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise?

I don't know if this has been posted already, but I'll admit to not knowing what, or who, to believe any more.
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Not like he is trying to promote his book or anything...

Ramesh Patel read economics at Sussex University, worked in media and finance from investment adviser to commodities broker in metals and currencies. Currently writing a book on the UK deficit Myth and the real agenda of the right and left.
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